in the northwest of the country in the swat valley, that's an area which had been controlled by the taliban just three years ago in the pakistani army came in launched a sweeping operation to push them out but in recent months we've seen the taliban creeping back in a couple of weeks ago a couple of months ago, rather we had an attack on the pakistani school girl malala yousafzai who was shot by the taliban and today we had this attack on a religious congregation hundreds had gathered to hear a leader speak in the main town and the death toll in that attack was 22 and was seen as another sign the taliban was not back in swat certainly starting to reassert their authority there. >> pelley: there was a third attack in pakistan today this one also in quetta. who was the target? >> earlier today there was a bomb attack on a pakistani paramilitary patrol in the center of quetta. that attack was carried out by a nationalist group that later claimed control -- rather that later claimed responsibility for attack. the ethnic nationalists have been fighting against the pakistani army against the stat